oh boy oh boy

We have decided on a name for our baby boy. His name will be Noah Adam Leptuch. Noah is a name that we both had liked when we were thinking of names before we found out we were having Ava. It was something we could both agree upon. So, when we were thinking of boy and girl names before we found out what we were having, it was on the short list. We each got one veto name and I had to use mine when Mike got stuck on Dieder. Yes, Dieder. I can just hear it now. (Noah, you will thank me later in life when you hear this story). I told some of our friends one night out that Mike was stuck on that name, knowing that the jokes would start immediately and hopefully help sway Mike away from it. Dieder, being a German name, they came up with Dieder Van Leptuch. Anyways, Noah it is!

It didn't take long for me to start the shopping. I sort of had an idea in my head on what colors I wanted to do for his room. I am going to make it difficult for my mom, sorry:( Because I found out the hard way with Ava that you can't use half the stuff in the bedding sets, I decided to just find paint colors that I liked and find crib sheets to match or accent it. I am going to do a tan color on 3 walls and then on the wall that the crib will be against, I am going to do a dark/light blue section on the bottom 1/2 with a dark brown stripe and then the other blue (dark or light) on the top 1/2. Turns out that there is a bedding set that has those colors in it, so I bought the crib sheet and I am waiting for coupons to buy the mobile and the 2 canvas wall art pieces. It just so happens that they colors match almost perfectly. It is the Cocalo Jackson bedding. Below, I tried to get the best shot of the sheet and paint samples, but the pictures don't really show what color the paint samples are, so I will explain after the pics...


The top blue color is similar to the dark blue on the elephant. The light blue is similar to the light blue on the elephant. The tan that will be the main color is the same as the light tan on the sheet and the dark brown is similar to the dark brown on the sheet. You can google the bedding to see the art and mobile if you get bored!

I thought that I would have a hard time finding boy clothes, because they just aren't as "cute" as girl clothes, but I did not. I did a bunch of sale/clearance shopping. I was in Carter's and they had $3.99/$5.99/$7.99 clearance items with an additional 20% off of that,plus I had an additional 20% off my purchase. I stocked up. I went to Kohl's this weekend during their Labor Day Power Hours sale and bought some pj's as well. I would have to say, he is doing pretty well up to 9 months. That is as far out as I am going to get. If he is anything like Ava, he will be in 0-3 months for about a month or two and then more right to 3 months. Ava was 3 months ahead of her age, so I planned the same for Noah. For the most part, living in AZ, you can buy short sleeve shirts/onesies and be ok because it is hot/nice most of the year. I can just buy pants or shorts depending on how hot or cold it is. Here are a couple of shots of his clothes.


The drawer is full of 3 months and 6 months clothes. The pile on the front left has about 20 onsies. I did manage to find some good Carter's stuff at Ross and TJ Maxx. I won't buy anything Carter's unless it is at least 50% off and at Ross, it was more than that, so I stocked up.

My mom also bought him some clothes too! He will be just as spoiled as Ava.